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NEW SENSATION.
SEQUEL TO A DOUBLE MURDER.
WHO ARE REAL CULPRITS?
Somerville, New Jersey ), Aug. 19.
A new sensation has occurred in connection with what is known as the Hall murder by the announce ment that Mrs. Halls, brother, Willie Stevens, and her brother-i law, Henry Carpenter, are held for trialby the Grand Jury on a charge of murder-Reuter.
STORY OF THE CASE.
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Earlier cables on the subject
stated:
BALKAN PACT.
YUGO-SLAVIA AND GREECE.
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the
BIG BATTALIONS.
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PROBABLE REACTION IN EUROPE
AMERICA ANXIOUS.
Washington, Aug. 19.
Rugby, August 19: In a leading article on conciliation Any reaction in Europe as the in the Balkans the "Morning Post" result of Mr. Kellogg's speech at welcomes
Plattsburgh, on the Preliminary Conventions con- eluded Between Greece and Yago-Arms Conference at tieneva will be Slavia, and expresses the belier watched with considerable interest
here. of difference la that all causes tween the two countries will have! been removed.
Politically, Greece gains the friendship of her powerful neigh, bour, whilat Yugo-Slavia is rid of difficulties hitherto attaching to her use of the little stretch of rail Somervilis (New Jersey), July 29.
way running from Caergeli, on the In American society a sensation southern frontier of Servin, 20 has been created by the news that Salonica, and gains an extension at Mrs. Edward Hall, the wealthy that port of the free zone for her widow of a rector of the fashionable goods.
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church of St. John's, New Bruni- To Great Britain, which is wick. has been arrested on a charge
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of the murder of her husband and friend of both parties, and the a beautiful foundation of whose national policý Mrs. Eleanor Mills,
is the maintenance of peace choir singer.in September. 1922.
The prisoner declares that the Europe, the attainment of a settle- ment of "questions that have long charge is ridiculous.
been the subject of bitter contre Versy, is necessarily gratifying.
Referring to the joint Note sent
The reopening of the case, in which connection the Grand Jury after an investigation in 1922, tool: no action, is a sequel to a divorce Bulgaria by Greece, Roumania, suit by the hushand,, in which aand Yugo-Slavia, with the objt former maid employed by Mrs. Hall of achieving a peaceful settlement alleged that his wife deceived the recent Macedonian trouble, him and that she concealed her the Morning Post" expresseg the relations with the dead rector." She hope that the wise use of the Bul declared that the wife received Sarian Refugees Loan, which is $5,000 for her silence in connection with the murder.
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The speech was prepared after consultation with the members of i the American delegation, who have returned from Geneva.
The Anal form was probably approved by President Coolidge.
Ita significance
further emphasised by the fact that, the speech was fully cabled to the American diplomats in the major eapitals-Reuter,
AIR PERILS.
AN AMERICAN TOURIST KILLED.
Boston, August 19. Mr. Robert Blaney, whe Was killed in the cross-Channel aero- plane disaster in England, is the
American colour artist, son of Mr. Dwight Blaney, the well- known Robert was touring Europe after graduating at Harvard. Reuter.
Pilot Succumbs.
London. Aug. 19. The pilot of the air liner has died.
aranteed by the League of Na-Reuter tions for the relief of refugees," may serve to deprive the insurgent bodies of their pretext for, stirring
Point Pleasant, N.J., July 31. On the ground that "there was no great presumption of guilt,p strife-British Wireless Service. bail applied for at Chief Justice Gummeres's summer residence on behalf of Mrs. Edward Hall has been granted in two sureties of $7,500 each.
NOT READY.
PHILIPPINES CLAIM FOR INDEPENDENCE.
PROMISE FORGOTTEN?..
FOREST FIRE.
600 MEN FIGHTING THE FLAMES.
GOOD PROGRESS,
San Francisco, August 19. Six hundred men are making en couraging progress in fighting the Paul Smith's, Aug. 19.
forest fire in the Sequoia National The flames jumped over There is no comment on the re- Forest. port from Cebu regarding the the Kaweah River and burned the United States withdrawing from edge of the Muir Redwood Grove. the Philippines in accordance with c which most, however, was saved.
--Reuter. President Coolidge's promise.
Inquirers were referred to a let- ter which President Coolidge FRIGHTENING IN THE NIGHT, wrote last year to Mr. Roxas,
CRY in the night, griping pains Chairman of the Philippine In-
in the vitals, cramps, weakening dependence Commission, main- diarrhoea; whether child or adult, there taining that the Philippines are is immediate comfort and ease from
Colic Chamberlain'a not yet ready for independence.—¡ pain in Reuter.
Diarrhoen Remedy. It pays to keep For sale every- it always or hand. where.
Message to Filipinos, Senator Osmena, on his way to Manila, cabled from Hongkong:--
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British Sympathy.
1 Rugby, August 19. De Lisle, the pilot of the French Heroplane which crashed
neur Romney Marshes Cross-channel
yesterday, died to-day
The two passengers killed were Hugo Rizzi. Manager of the An- bassadors' Club, and Robert Blaney, son of the well-known American artist.
Sir Robert Hoare. Air Minister, has sent a cablegram to the French Air Union expressing his profound sympathy with the relatives of those killed and with the injured. -British Wireless Service.
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New Territories will be open- ed to traffic on SATURDAY, the 21st August.. Caution should be! exercised on the Coastal Road as several portions of which are still under repair.
E: D. C. WOLFE, Capt. Eupt. of Police. Hongkong, 20th August, 1926.
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